Arise Quote by Aristotle

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or…

— Aristotle

“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be…

— Noam Chomsky

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle

“Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all the policies…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.

— Annie Lowrey

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can…

— Angus Deaton

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling…

— Aristotle